2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Massachusetts
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Massachusetts” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Library Science is the 35th most popular major in the country with 6,906 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , library science graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $43,990 and had an average of $35,446 in loans still to pay off.
Across Massachusetts, there were 288 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,784 and $41,000 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $82,580 and $115,590 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in library science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Massachusetts
The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts doctor’s degree library science students.
Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Library Science in Massachusetts
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Simmons University landed the #1 spot on the list. Simmons is a medium-sized school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 2 doctorate’s library science degrees in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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